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“A very little key will open a very heavy door” (Charles Dickens, Hunted Down)
AI and dyslexia
What can't AI do? Check out an article by a successful tech entrepreneur who started out with dyslexia and found AI a useful tool.Main point: "I think it was my dyslexia and my need to see things from a different angle that enabled me to be open to the rewards...
Taking on robot vision
An article about a startup working on robot vision may offer ways to enhance robot capabilities in industry.Main point: As important as the manual abilities of robots are, they need the ability to properly see their environments before they can take a...
Making the lame walk
Via Business Insider: Today, both Theresa and Matthew are walking again thanks to the game-changing technology developed by ReWalk Robotics and Ekso Bionics. Both companies have developed bionic suits that give people with lower limb disabilities the ability to stand...
Memorial to a Forgotten Astronaut
Via Instapundit and Parabolic Arc: From Mojave, it’s a drive of nearly 50 miles through the sagebrush and Joshua trees, around dry Koehn Lake, and through the old mining towns of Randsburg and Johannesburg before you reach the unmarked dirt road leading to the site. A...
Memorial to a Forgotten Astronaut
Via Instapundit and Parabolic Arc: From Mojave, it’s a drive of nearly 50 miles through the sagebrush and Joshua trees, around dry Koehn Lake, and through the old mining towns of Randsburg and Johannesburg before you reach the unmarked dirt road leading to the site. A...
Making Smarter Smart Homes
Via Science 2.0: CNN estimates that smart homes will grow from a $10 billion business this year to a $44 billion industry by 2017. It will happen because there will be no more thinking about Bluetooth or Wi-Fi or broadband, the smart home hub will eliminate the chaos....
Making Smarter Smart Homes
Via Science 2.0: CNN estimates that smart homes will grow from a $10 billion business this year to a $44 billion industry by 2017. It will happen because there will be no more thinking about Bluetooth or Wi-Fi or broadband, the smart home hub will eliminate the chaos....
IBM develops computer chip with a million ‘neurons’ that ‘functions like human brain’
Via Drudge and Mail Online: TrueNorth is the world’s first neurosynaptic computer chip because it can figure things out on its own. It has one million ‘neurons’ and could cram the same power as a super computer into a circuit the size of a postage stamp. ...